US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on March 25 for "Lubricious structures, methods of making them, and methods of use" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,467, issued on March 25, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Lubricious structures, methods of making them, and methods of use" was invented by Scott S. Perry (Houston), Alexander Rudy (Gainesville, Fla.), Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Fla.) and Thomas Ettor Angelini (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for lubricious structures (also referred to simply as "structure"), methods of making lubricious structures, methods of using lubricious structures, and the like."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2022, under Applicatio...